Wednesday TV guide: Derek is back as Ricky Gervais as acclaimed sitcom returns for second series

The Mirror's TV previewer on the welcome return of the heart-warming Ricky Gervais sitcom

If MasterChef was about comedy instead
of food, it’s easy to imagine what John Torode and Gregg Wallace would make of this Ricky Gervais sitcom
as it comes back for a second series.

“You’ve got tinkly piano music and genital warts,” John would tell him. “Mate, those two things should never be on the same plate.”

To
which Gregg would add: “I’m getting the lovely light sweetness of Hannah and Derek, the sharpness of handyman Dougie played by Karl Pilkington,
but then all I’m left with is this nasty, sour aftertaste in my mouth from Kev and that grubby pornographic gravy.

“There’s a time and a place for sexual language like that and it just doesn’t belong in a pudding.”